Saturday, December 29, 2007

Higher Standards

An editorial supports raising the bar for students graduating from high school. Graduating seniors often take remedial coursework as freshmen in college and the low percentages of minorities applying to four-year universities are some of the pieces of evidence used to support this position.

While I, too, would like to see students better prepared for university life and coursework, I also see some concerning factors not discussed.

I firmly believe that elective courses often keep students in school and reveal to students their passions. By increasing the number of core classes (according to the article: "English, math, science, social studies and language") students take, the number of electives available to them would decrease.

Also, the public and school officials must be prepared for failure rates to rise initially. In any system when standards are raised, a period of time ensues where success levels drop and then they begin to recover. However, success rates may never reach previous levels.

Academic success is a social and community dilemma. The increase in single-parent households, the attitudes about school, the socio-economic status of households (the issue of poverty in general), and more affect student achievement.

It seems as though every solution to perceived academic shortcomings is conducted entirely within the schools, even though numerous factors outside of the school setting greatly affect student success--arguably even more so than what occurs within the classroom.

2 comments:

The Educational Testing Service (ETS) has published a report authored by Paul E. Barton and Richard J. Coley with the title: The Family: America's Smallest School. The study outlines some of the negatives outside of the school that affect performance in school. Here is a link to the report.

Aion is one of the most anticipated online games in 2009, http://www.rmt-wm.com/ NCsoft absorb of the "World of Warcraft" game and other forces in the camp set up on the successfulexperience,designedfor"Asmodians","Elyos"and"Balaur", http://www.rmt-wm.com/ The story centers around the three to start the war,Players can achieve large-scale "race vs race" . can become a Asmodians or Elyos, http://www.rmt-wm.com/ while Balaur is the monster and NPC.Aion schedule in Japan.http://www.rmt-wm.com/games/aion.html the official website of the public April 17, 2009internal testing operators June 5, 2009to start internal testing June 12, 2009limited public beta staff 6 At the end of 2009public beta June9 2009 . http://www.rmt-wm.com/games/aion.html

At that time，Rmtwm http://www.rmt-wm.com/ will provide to players aion Virtual game coin,this will reduce players hard time to fight coin.players through the reality of dollars to buy virtual coin to upgrade their level of equipment, Rmtwm http://www.rmt-wm.com/ as an operating a virtual coin company,In addition Aion rmt http://www.rmt-wm.com/games/aion.html，we are also operate on dozens of Frequently games.http://www.rmt-wm.com/games/aion.html Low prices and convenient service，players can purchase peace of mind.